A lot of times you get people writing wonderful sentences and paragraphs, and they fall in love with their prose style, but the stories really aren't that terrific.
I love being on stage, I love being able to tell a story, I love the fact that the audience listens and laughs at it. It makes me happy, and it's what I live for.
I have always loved story - I escaped within it as a child, I read every day, I love figuring out the complex layers of an author's work.
I moved to New York with the derangement of love. I was writing all these terrible stories, but I had never been happier.
In drama, I think, the audience is a willing participant. It's suspending a certain kind of disbelief to try to get something out of a story.
The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked stories.
I try and make little stories. Whether it's with a pencil or with bits of records, it's really the same thing.
I have to write for everyone. What really fascinates me is how you make films or make stories that can genuinely be shared by different groups.
We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It's about conflicts between creation stories.
A story has been thought through to the end when it has taken the worst possible turn.
Work like hell! I had 122 rejection slips before I sold a story.
In L.A. you hear all these stories of people being filmed in their own homes through their windows. I think that is so scary.
Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know start at the beginning, finish at the end, and tell everything in between. Modelling is just an image.
Life is like a DVR recording. The story goes on, but you cannot see it until you fast forward through the commercials
The specific story line that people have responded to the most has been the horror of bathing suit shopping.
The only reason I've shared my story is to take that tiny baby step of breaking down the stigma attached to depression.
I have a couple of girlfriends who've told me some horror stories but I've never had a really terrible kiss before.
Lyrics paved my teenage route to loving words. I take those passionate mini-stories with me everywhere.
We start with strong characters and build the movie from there. That not to say we don't struggle with story - that's the most challenging part.
You can tell a more over-the-top incredible story if you use a nonfiction form.
I think that in any role you have, whether TV or film, it's hard to do comedy and drama within one story.
